They were largely following the lead of the NWS, whose forecast was the least accurate of all.

Rightfully, weather geeks are handing NWS Pontiac their ASS on their Facebook page. The lack of a winter weather advisory is inexcusable. Widespread 4 to 7 inch accumulations in the western and northern suburbs + Detroit proper.

1-3 seemed to be the common theme among the prognosticators. I got a 6-7, in my opinion that is a big miss, perhaps since it was a weekend when many kids are on spring break and the prime time talking heads are on their weekend siesta there was less emphasis on this storm.

There was a freak convergence of a wave and another piece of jet stream energy overhead last night... I don’t think it was overly predictable and NWS stated exactly what happened on its website in their forecast discussion...